Blake William Blair Robert Separate Plate (23 results)

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper; wide margins, scattered foxing, somewhat soiled. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, trimmed to the image. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper; wide margins, somewhat soiled. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly spotted, image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, trimmed to the image, recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 A.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, wide margins, somewhat soiled. § From the first 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: R. Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, trimmed to the image, recently cleaned. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 A.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 A.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned . § From the second 4to edition, this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper; wide margins, somewhat soiled. § From the first 4to edition, this is one of the most powerful plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, cleaned and in fine condition. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, folio, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, good. § From the second folio edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled, image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 A.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. Framed. § From the first 4to edition. Designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti (to Blake's indignation). A glorious image. Bentley, Blake Books, 435b.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition, this is one of the most famous plates in the series. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D.

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D. "In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave, a popular "Graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. Cromek planned to select twenty of these designs for a deluxe edition of the poem. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805, Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs. Blake etched one image, Deaths Door, in white-line, but Cromek rejected it. The dark power of the white-line print appeals to modern tastes, but was far from fashionable in the early nineteenth century. In a second prospectus, also of November 1805, Cromek announced that Luigi (or Louis) Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the potentially lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement, Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume, published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century." (The William Blake Archive).…

London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, margins slightly soiled and worn, image clean. § From the first 4to edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 435 A.